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Forbes' list of 68 people “who matter”
Forbes' list
2010 picks 68 who matter, out of the 6.8 billion people on the
planet. The heads of state, major religious figures, entrepreneurs
and outlaws on the second annual list were chosen “because, in various ways, they bend the world to their will.”
Chinese President Hu Jintao
Chinese President Hu Jintao has topped the 2010 Forbes list of the “World's Most Powerful People.”
U.S. President Barack Obama
U.S. President Barack Obama ranked second among 68 people.
President Barack Obama has been given the Nobel Peace Prize for 2009 for his extraordinary efforts on October 9, 2009 in
strengthening international diplomacy and for taking landmark initiatives to create a nuclear-free world
The top 10 also includes Saudi King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz al Saud (3), Russian Prime Minister
Vladimir Putin (4), Pope Benedict XVI (5), German Chancellor Angela Merkel (6), British Prime Minister David Cameron (7), US
Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke (8) and Microsoft founder Bill Gates (10).
Forbes'list from India
Congress president Sonia Gandhi, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Tata Sons Chairman Ratan Tata, Reliance Industries Chairman
Mukesh Ambani and steel giant ArcelorMittal Chairman Lakshmi Mittal are among the five Indians named among the most powerful
people in the world in Forbes' list this year of 68 people “who matter.”
Congress president Sonia Gandhi
Congress president Sonia Gandhi debuts at the 9th spot
in this year's list of the world's most powerful people Ms.
Sonia Gandhi recently elected to a record fourth term as
head of India's ruling Congress party. "Despite Italian
birth, foreign religion (Roman Catholic) and political reluctance,
Gandhi wields unequalled influence over one billion Indians,"
Forbes said.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh
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Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, “universally praised as
India's best Prime Minister since Nehru,” is ranked 18th on the
list. He has moved up in the list from being 36th last year.
Forbes said the soft-spoken Oxford-trained economist is “ideally
trained to lead the world’s fourth-largest economy in terms of
purchasing power into the next decade.”
Mukesh Ambani
Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani, who has a
net worth of $29 billion, comes in at the 34th spot. His ranking
too improved from his last year's 44th place. The 53-year-old
“business maharaja” is Asia's richest person, who certainly
likes to live like a king, Forbes said. His petrochemicals
conglomerate Reliance Industries is India’s most valuable
private sector company with a market cap of USD 80 billion. It
accounts for nearly five per cent of India’s GDP and 15 per cent
of exports.
Lakshmi Mittal
Lakshmi Mittal
chairman of the world's largest steel company ArcelorMittal
occupying the 44th spot . The 60-year-old steel magnate has a net
worth of $28.7 billion. London's wealthiest resident, Mr. Mittal
is sponsoring London's 2012 Olympic games, paying for most of a
400-foot twisting steel tower to be named ArcelorMittal Orbit at
the city's Olympic Park.
Ratan Tata
Mr.Ratan Tata, having dropped two notches from last year,
comes in at the 61st position in the list of the world's most
powerful people. Calling Ratan Tata the Tata Sons head as
“India’s best brand ambassador,” Forbes said Tata made
“automotive history” last year with his ‘People’s Car’
-- the 2,200 dollars Tata Nano, the world’s cheapest auto. “In
nation of a billion, environmentalists call it eco-disaster. After
Nano debuted in 2008, India’s passenger car sales rose most in
three years in 2009; three Tata competitors now working on Nano copycats,” Forbes said.
Forbes complete list
World's
most powerful people -Forbes list
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